The employees' open office became a conference room, and everyone sat in a crooked and casual way.
Ma Qiao pulled an office chair and sat upright next to Kang Jianfei, holding a meeting minutes book in his hand. Zhong Yuan, the fat man, sat down on the desk opposite, while Hu Juncai moved a small bench and sat down.
Uncle Qi was sitting by the window smoking, Zhong Zhiwen and Wu Chenggang were sitting next to each other and whispering, Chen Xunqi was watering a pot of plants on the table, and Chen Bingkun was leaning on the desk and yawning constantly.
Everyone in the company is now here. Li Qian is making tea and water for everyone. In addition, a typist and errand boy hired by Maqiao named Zhang Xu is handing out employee contracts that Maqiao made personally.
After everyone signed the contract, Zhou Mingfang gave a rough account report. After excluding various expenses, the company's 5 million yuan was left with more than 4.783 million yuan (after deducting office space rental, decoration, purchasing supplies, etc. expenses).
"Okay, let me say a few words first," Kang Jianfei said, "Today is our first staff meeting. Everyone who has not been familiar with each other before can get to know each other. Akun, please introduce yourself first..."
Chen Bingkun immediately stood up with a smile and said: "Hello everyone, my name is Chen Bingkun. I specialize in assisting Fei Ge in movie casting. In addition, I also work as a company scout in the artist department."
Qi Bo said: "My name is Qi Chunwang, and I am in charge of logistics in the production department."
Chen Xunqi said: "My name is Chen Xunqi..."
After everyone introduced themselves one by one, Kang Jianfei said: "I opened a film company not to mention loving movies and pursuing art. But since we are in this industry, we must love movies and pursue art, but it is more practical.
The thing is to make money when making a movie. When the company makes money, everyone gets more money. The company is still small now, and everyone has great talents. If you feel that your talents cannot be fully utilized, then you can only feel aggrieved first.
Everyone. Now the company still has more than 4.7 million in its account. I am going to make a movie called "Mr. Zombie". Several people in the production department have already read part of the script. The rough budget of this movie is at least 3.5 million.
, which means that after the movie is finished, the company won’t have much money left, so it has no choice but to throw money away..."
Hu Juncai reminded: "Ah Fei, the overseas box office of "Happy Ghost" has not been recorded yet."
Kang Jianfei was quite unhappy when he was interrupted. He rolled his eyes at him and said: "It will take at least more than a month for the overseas box office to recover. We will see it then. The situation we are facing now is that it is difficult to find the location for "Mr. Zombie".
And we can’t rent Shaw Brothers’ Clear Water Bay Studio and Golden Harvest’s Busan Road Studio. Everyone, the first thing we have to solve now is the location problem. Does anyone know where there are buildings and streets in the style of the early Republic of China?”
Everyone was thinking silently, but Qi Bo suddenly said: "The China Film and Television Culture City in Taipei should be suitable. Many big-budget martial arts films in Hong Kong are shot there."
Kang Jianfei asked: "Is it easy to apply for a visa to Taiwan?"
Qi Bo said: "In order to encourage Hong Kong film companies to film in Taiwan, Taiwan has a special film and television visa, which can be issued in a few days, faster than a student visa."
Kang Jianfei thought for a while and said: "Okay, let's go to Taipei for filming. Ma Qiao will be responsible for applying for visas and booking air tickets. In addition, Uncle Qi, cousin, A Kun and Chen Xunqi will leave for Taipei in advance.
Please contact China Film and Television City to rent filming equipment and recruit extras."
Chen Bingkun said quickly: "Brother Fei, I only know actors from Hong Kong, but I'm not familiar with Taiwanese actors."
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: "I believe in your ability. Won't we get to know each other when we go there?"
While several people were talking, Li Shan suddenly came over, walked to Kang Jianfei and whispered: "Miss Pan Yingzi is here, saying she is here to pick up the script."
"Invite her in," Kang Jianfei said, and said to everyone, "Okay, that's the end of today's meeting. Let's go down and do our own thing."
Others were fine, but Ma Qiao was lamenting in his heart: He was a top student who graduated from the Financial Law Department of the University of Hong Kong and dropped out of Harvard Business School. He wanted to come back and show off his talents, but he ended up working in such a small company.
Such a shameless commander, he has to personally handle visa applications and booking air tickets. What a tragedy!
Kang Jianfei returned to his general manager's office, and within a minute a young woman walked in.
Pan Yingzi wears a bat shirt on her upper body and a pair of straight white trousers underneath. She is dressed in a refreshing outfit and has a baby face. She looks like she is 20 years old at most. How does she look like a young woman in her early 30s?
"Hello, Miss Pan, please take a seat!" Kang Jianfei smiled and took out a copy of the script for "Mr. Zombie".
After Pan Yingzi sat down, she looked at Kang Jianfei curiously.
Pan Yingzi became famous very early. Before Bruce Lee became popular, she was already one of the Twelve Golden Hairpins of Shaw Brothers. She traveled to Hong Kong and Taiwan to make films for a long time, and she has a large number of fans in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Unfortunately, she became famous.
Although she is famous, she is still far away from being a top actress. Especially after her husband established a film company, Pan Ying took a break from acting for several years and has been working behind the scenes. She has not appeared in a movie for five years.
It can be said that now is the lowest point in Pan Yingzi's life. In life, her relationship with her husband broke down and they got divorced. In terms of career, her family's film company collapsed. She took a break from acting for several years and exhausted her fame. She came back to film a movie two months ago.
"Famous Swordsman", many young viewers don't know her.
Two days ago, Chen Bingkun invited her to make a movie. Pan Yingzi didn't think much about it and just agreed. In addition to the lack of money, Kang Jianfei's reputation as a "million-dollar director" played a role. Pan Yingzi wanted to borrow Kang Jianfei's hand.
Increase your screen exposure again.
If Kang Jianfei had gone to invite Pan Yingzi in person before the release of "Happy Ghost", the latter would probably not even bother to see him.
"Ms. Pan, this is your script." Kang Jianfei suddenly remembered that he went to Taipei to film a film and asked, "Is Ms. Pan familiar with Taipei China Film Cultural City?"
Pan Yingzi nodded and said: "It's familiar. I was a producer a few years ago and I often filmed in China Film and Television Culture City. I also know the general manager of China Film and Television City."
"That's great. The film "Mr. Zombie" has decided to be filmed in the China Film and Television City. However, no one in my company is familiar with the situation there. It would be great if Ms. Pan could be the intermediary to introduce it." Kang Jianfei said.
When Pan Yingzi heard that he was just helping to make contact, he readily agreed: "No problem, I will just ask Manager Ma out for a meal then, and he will arrange everything."
When Kang Jianfei heard that he was in a good mood, he was afraid that he would have no way to go to other places for filming, otherwise he would waste a lot of time and energy on unnecessary things. With Pan Yingzi as the intermediary to contact the general manager of China Film and Television City, things would be much easier to handle.
, the shooting was also smooth sailing.
The original budget of the original "Mr. Zombie" was 4.5 million. Due to Lin Zhengying's constant pursuit of perfection, the final cost nearly doubled. Lin Zhengying herself did not receive the director's salary because of this, and she was nicknamed "the Taoist priest who spreads money."
Pan Yingzi is now helping with the shooting liaison affairs in Taipei, and Kang Jianfei himself has ready-made and complete storyboards, so there is no need for Lin Zhengying to shoot a lot of discarded film. Excluding a few years of inflation, the original 8 million production of "Mr. Zombie"
”, the cost for Kang Jianfei to shoot it would never exceed 4 million.
Kang Jianfei called Uncle Qi, but he didn't expect that Uncle Qi and Pan Yingzi actually knew each other, which saved him the effort of introducing each other.
The three of them discussed for a while, and Kang Jianfei finally made the decision: "Then it's settled. I'll hire Ms. Pan as a special consultant for "Mr. Zombie" to assist the crew in filming in Taipei. You and Uncle Qi will set off in a few days.
Taipei."
"No problem, don't worry, Mr. Kang." Pan Yingzi said with a smile. This kind of shooting coordination work may be a bit tricky for other actors, but Pan Yingzi is very handy. She has been working in Hong Kong and Taiwan in the past few years.
I am traveling back and forth as a film producer.
"It's getting late, let's go have dinner together." Kang Jianfei looked at his watch and said. This watch was a Rolex given to Pan Desheng for an advertisement. It was the only famous brand Kang Jianfei wore.
Qi Bo said, "I won't go. I have other things to do in the afternoon."
Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "Then I'll invite Miss Pan to express my gratitude."
Pan Yingzi also smiled and said: "Mr. Kang, you are too polite. You are still the first director who is willing to film with me after I come back. It's not too late for me to curry favor."
